RE: We Need Advertising Revenue, You Say?

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geekpowered (69)in #steem • 5 years ago

LOL. I said similar when I started. There were even some flagging for the use of affiliate links. I thought it was utterly stupid how some were so staunchly against advertising. Advertising can be annoying as fuck...but if done well, can be non-intrusive. Many barely notice the adverts on the top and side of almost every website. The ones that really annoy are the ones that popup and appear in the middle of an article or force you to watch a video to see something.

Popups and popunders don't even pay that well. You need a massive website for them to pay off. Affiliate earnings that pay a percentage are far better. You gamble on displaying the banner ads and such, but in turn you can earn quite a pretty penny. A portion of that money could then be returned to users, if the terms of service of the advertiser allowed it. You could even set it up so users had control over adverts displayed on pages associated with their blog. You could even let them disable adverts on their blog, if they wanted.

Pay from here sucks for most users TBH. We also don't get paid if we attract users outside of Steem. An extra revenue stream that might in fact be in the hundreds or thousands per month, is significant for many users, and even a small percentage of that income would be quite significant for Steemit, and could be used to actually buy back Steem at low levels, rather than always selling it.

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holybranches (60) 5 years ago

The ones that really annoy are the ones that popup and appear in the middle of an article or force you to watch a video to see something.

Exactly!

Reason why this proposal is better!

When we're busy publishing, before we hit the post button, we should be able to select from a list of these promoted posts and include one or two to sit as banners within or under our publications. If a member visits our blog, sees one of these ads, then clicks; that click should function just like the vote button, rewarding the author of the post. That's one of the easiest ways a blogger here could generate ad revenue.
The ads could jockey for position on this list by spending more and more money like they do now to hijack the trending page. That, my friends, is good for business. Everyone wins.
Bloggers curate advertisements to include with their posts, and when that advertisement gets it's reward, a share of the final revenue should go to all bloggers who chose to include that ad on their post.

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geekpowered (69) 5 years ago

That's certainly an option.

I would personally prefer a combination of in-house adverts in addition to ones from traditional companies. One of the best advantages of traditional adverts is that they could pay out to users far past 7 days.

I still get paid for users that signed up on sites I haven't owned for years. Granted, it's not as much as it was, since many of those users likely quit the corresponding sites and stopped buying things. What's really awesome is when I suddenly get a huge payout from something because a few users decide to buy things all in the same period. A surprise check for a few hundred dollars is always welcome.

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